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The Fight of the Drunken Walrus Bros was nowhere near the parade

Don't let the media - especially the out-of-town Boston haters - deceive you into thinking that small pack of no doubt alcohol-infused bros from Sudbury or New Hampshire or some other sad excuse of a place got into their shirt-tearing brawl at the Patriots parade.

Look at the scrollwork in this video of their recreation of walruses on the beach during mating season. That's the Chrysanthemum building at 126 Salem St. in the North End, so nowhere near the parade. Also, the person who took the video says the scrum happened after the parade (another view).

High-profile loutish behavior in Boston - yelling the N-word at Fenway, assaulting Keytar Bear, brawling at a parade - is often if not usually perpetrated by visitors from the suburbs.

This is a phenomenon in basically all metro areas: Many suburbanites see the city as their urban playground where the normal rules of human behavior don't apply, and disregard the fact that it's still a place where people live and work, just like their picturesque little village.

But some of the stories I read made it sound like they started swinging while the Duck Boats were going by, confirming everybody's reputation of Bostonian, when, in fact, the parade went off very well.

They were probably just arguing about whether or not the decorative railings on the building were a good fit for the neighborhood's traditional character and architecture, and naturally things got heated